Filmmaker John Wilson's first theatrical documentary ends up feeling like a feature-length episode of his comedy docuseries, How To with John Wilson. Featuring a meta second-person perspective and stream-of-consciousness style that goes off on wild tangents, it relies on voyeuristic B-roll, visual puns and ironic juxtaposition that turns the most boring subject in the world into an unpredictable journey that encompasses everything from a "rock"-umentary to Hallmark movies. It almost feels like an alien's point of view of human life. Who are all these people doing all these weird things? Needless to say, it's a uniquely angled original vision. How it starts is not necessarily where it ends.
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